Spatial Audio Raven Preamp


Spatial is supposed to be shipping the first "wave" from pre orders of this preamplifier in May, does anyone have one on order? Was hoping to hear about it from AXPONA but I guess they were not there. It's on my list for future possibilities. It seems to check all my boxes if I need a preamp.

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Of course, things were a little bigger back then. This entire rack is one channel of amplification. Two racks were typically used, with instant changeover in case of failure while the movie was presented.

What Lynn said about coupling caps is true.  I have gone through most of the best ones in various designs, and they can sound good to very good.  But the entire Revelation series we designed for Spatial has NO coupling caps from the input to the preamp to the output of the 300b amps.  When you eliminate all of them the sound is quite remarkable.  Provided you have REALLY good custom transformers, specifically designed for their application, and we do.  The Raven preamp will actually drive a 600 ohm load, so a 5K power amp is nothing to it.

I placed my order 2 weeks ago and chose the cherry base.  The build should be complete by the end of May according to Spatial.  I will post my impressions after about 20 hours of burn-in.

@jc4659  Yes, please do.  What amps and source(s) are you planning on using with the Raven?